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Eat That Frog – Time Management

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    Cute, isn’t he?

    Why is it that the phrase is to get the monkey off your back when you’ve got an outstanding issue that is hanging around but to eat the frog when you need to do the thing you don’t want to do? Maybe that’s the elephant in the room! Ok, I’ll stop mixing metaphors.

    Maybe eating a frog is less unappealing than eating a monkey.

    Either way, I’m in the position of having to eat something.

    For the past two months I’ve been avoiding a couple of unpleasant / uninteresting / too-difficult tasks. Tasks relating to closing off my previous business.  I really can’t avoid them forever, as much as the child in me wants to! They just HAVE to get done and no amount of wishing and hoping on my part will make them go away or obviate the need to do them.

    So, today is the day.

    Today I get to eat thatRead More »Eat That Frog – Time Management

    Overcoming Obstacles: Getting Through The Mud

      It’s only the tenth day of the year and I’m already feeling overwhelmed!

      The cold hard truth is that completing tasks and meeting objectives in business is just hard. As soon as I start something there’s an extra step I have to do before I can go forward; that feeling of overwhelm seems to stop me in my tracks; and then of course there’s my old friend, procrastination! Each of these serves to block the path ahead.

      I remember when my nephew (he’s 44 now – eek!) was very young and starting to dress himself. He’d pull up his pants so high they were almost at his neck.

      I’m employing that memory to help me. The way through this sludge is to pull my pants up high and get on with it.

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      The only way through is through and if I can convince myself there’s a sense of urgency around it, I can get throughRead More »Overcoming Obstacles: Getting Through The Mud

      webfolio, featured project

      Customising WEBFOLIO Theme – 1

        FEATURED PROJECT           Webfolio is a free theme for wordpress but the instructions are a little scant in places. As I find things out, I’m posting them here. To Change the words “featured project” in the slider on the front page: 1. Navigate to AppearanceEditor 2. Select “home.php” 3. Scroll down until you find the following line <div class=”featured”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/ico_star.png” alt=”Featured” /> FEATURED POST</div> 4. Change the words “FEATURED PROJECT” to whatever you want 5. Click ‘update file’ button and You’re Done Series : https://redhotinternetmarketing.com/blog/customising-webfolio-theme-1/ https://redhotinternetmarketing.com/blog/customising-webfolio-theme-2/ https://redhotinternetmarketing.com/blog/customising-webfolio-theme-3

        How To Get Content For Your Blog

          I love simplicity.The concept of a blog is simple.

          Some idea or topic or event stimulates your thinking.

          You put your thoughts ‘out there’ and you’ve posted a blog entry.

          Yet writing a blog, consistently, seems to be anything but simple.

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          I’ve come across a lot of ideas for making the task easier and this is one of those “keeper” ideas from Victoria Pinchon (Forbes magazine)

          Victoria espouses a routine process for being able to be such a prolific blogger. Here is her plan:

          1. Work out what you want to blog about – a keyword phrase or topic if you will.

          2. Plug that phrase into your search engine of choice. You can filter your search by only choosing blogs or news items or restricting the recency to the last week, last month etc.

          3. As you cruise the search results, something will catch your eye. It might be a statement or an idea.  Now you can start writing …

          4. Take that ‘discovery’Read More »How To Get Content For Your Blog

          Plans, Goals and Achievements

            I love the concept of a fresh new year as I turn the page of the calendar over and peer into all that blank space ahead. The future seems full of promise and opportunity. It’s like we’re given another chance to get it all right from now on in. As the clock rings in a New Year, we’re given the chance to reflect on our past, remember our achievements and learn from our failures. New Year’s Resolutions are etched with fervour and wonderful intentions: lose weight give up smoking/drinking watch less TV drink more water spend more time with xxx… Read More »Plans, Goals and Achievements

            Robert Kiyosaki on Writing Books

               

              Kiyosaki is a great businessman and entrepreneur. He does not consider himself to be a good writer or author.  But he knew he had a message people needed to hear – he was in complete disagreement with conventional financial planning advice. When his book was rejected so many times, and he gained nothing from hiring a publicist, he decided he had to learn about sales and marketing and psychology to understand why people buy.

              Here are some key things Kiyosaki had to say at a publicity seminar.

              You can never stop promoting and you can never stop selling to become a best-selling author.

              Being a best-selling author is different to being a best-writing author.

              If we don’t keep learning we won’t stay on the Best Seller Lists where we’ve been for overRead More »Robert Kiyosaki on Writing Books